Terry O'Neill, founder and president of Constantine's Circus, Inc., is an Albany, New
York-based lawyer, public relations consultant and freelance writer. He is the son of a Connecticut State
Trooper, the grandnephew of six members of the Bridgeport, Connecticut Police Department and the
great-grandson of a County Waterford police constable.

Mr. O'Neill, who delights in one-upping Professor Constantine, also counts as
ancestors such legendary warriors as Conn of the Hundred Battles, whose name speaks for itself; Niall of the
Nine Hostages, who chased the Roman legions out of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, England, the Isle of
Man, Brittany and all the way across Gaul to banks of the Rhine; Daniel O'Neill who fought in France with the
famed Fighting Irish 69th New York Regiment during WW I; Daniel's son, also Daniel O'Neill who, emulating
Niall, in the next war chased the Nazis all the way to Berlin; and Master Sergeant James V. O'Neill who, during
WW II at age 26, was the youngest master sergeant in the Army Air Corps and later, in support of an airlift of
Jewish refugees to Palestine, a hero of the founding of Israel. Mr. O'Neill himself is a veteran of the United States
Navy, as was his late father Joseph and his younger brother Sean.

Mr. O'Neill studied Western Civilization at Providence College, earned a Bachelor's
degree in English Literature from the University of Connecticut and read Law at Albany Law School.

In 1986, Mr. O'Neill joined the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services as a legal advisor
to the state's police executives. He later served as Special Assistant to John J. Poklemba, the state Director of
Criminal Justice. He represented the Director in responding to violent unrest on the St. Regis Mohawk Indian
Reservation during 1990, playing a key role in the creation of a Mohawk police force.

This determined-looking group is the Ulster County Triad. A Triad is a county-level coalition of law
enforcement and senior citizens with a mission to provide public safety services responsive to the needs
and concerns of the elderly. The man sitting on the left is Robert Cutler, who helped organize the Triad and
who designed the logo being held up by Terry O'Neill. Though 70 years old at the time, Mr. Cutler had made
himself a real computer whiz. Mr. Cutler helped Mr. O'Neill win passage of Chapter 111 of the Laws of 1993,
which brought Triad to New York.

In 1993, Mr. O'Neill introduced the Triad
program of enhanced police service to the elderly to New York. In December 1999, Governor George E. Pataki
took Triad statewide by signing a historic agreement with New York's police chiefs, sheriffs and senior citizens.
Mr. O'Neill also serves pro bono as Counsel to the Mid-Hudson Crime Prevention Association, the Capital District
Coalition for Crime Victims' Rights and the Coalition for Safer Schools.

Mr. O'Neill is an advocate for children and in 1990 championed a state law creating a
training program for juvenile officers. In 1994 he suggested legislation that created a fund to enhance public
education and prevention programs to combat child
abduction and exploitation. In 1999, he helped Doug and Mary Lyall, parents of
Suzanne Lyall, a State University of New York student who
disappeared in March 1998, get Chapter 22 -- the College Campus Security Act -- enacted.

Mr. O'Neill is especially dedicated to the welfare and dignity of retired law enforcement
officers, the legacy of his friendship with the late Patrick F. O'Reilly, who fought hard for pension equity for his
brethren. Mr. O'Neill joined a group of retired Troopers in the 1993 campaign to create a privately-funded
monument -- the Gray Rider -- to
members of the New York State Police. In 1998, he helped retired and disabled New York State Trooper Paul
A. Richter get a law enacted that will raise millions of dollars to fund research to find a cure for spinal cord
injury paralysis. He is eagerly looking forward to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Association of Former
New York State Troopers in 2001.

Mr. O'Neill has long been writing verses and stories celebrating members of New York's
law enforcement community and chronicling the struggle against illegal drugs. His work has appeared in
police publications throughout the country. He is
the author of a book of children's verses with a message of respect for law and law enforcement officers called
Constantine's Circus. A play, several other books
and a movie screenplay are currently under development.

Mr. O'Neill is a prolific composer of music for the highland bagpipe. Many of his tunes
are named for famous cops. His signature tune "Thomas A. Constantine" was published in 1998 by the
Irish Pipe Band Association. Click here
for the sheet music.

Of Professor Constantine, Mr. O'Neill says: "He's my teacher -- and that makes him my
biggest and strongest and best friend."